Arava Power unveils Israels first solar field
In a historic ceremony on Sunday night, one of Arava Power Companys founders David Rosenblatt saw his company and countrys first photovoltaic field inaugurated.
APVA reports on Australian solar industry's record-breaking year
The Australian Photovoltaic Associations (APVA) report on the state of the market in 2010 has been released, with the countrys record year in numbers matched by progress in research and development.
Spain: Isofoton and HKSilicon take on 600 million polysilicon project
Following negotiations, Spain-based Isofoton and Hong Kong company HKSilicon are to build what they say is one of the worlds biggest polysilicon factories.
Germany: Unscheduled cuts to solar FIT scheme dropped
Additional cuts to photovoltaic feed-in tariffs (FIT), which were to come into effect as of March 2012, have been struck from the draft of amendments to the Renewable Energy Act (EEG), according to media reports. The German Federal Cabinet adopted the draft today (Monday).
Germanys PV future discussed
Leading photovoltaic managers met at the 2nd German Solarforum, held in Berlin on Monday May 31, to discuss the future of Germanys solar industry.
Germanys new EEG draft contains extra solar subsidy cuts
Next Monday, June 6, the Cabinet of the German federal government is to decide upon an additional cut in photovoltaic feed-in tariffs of six percent, to be introduced as of March 1, 2012.
Module plagiarism? No thanks!
Dunmore Europe believes that protecting branded products against copying and imitation is an important feature in the industry.
Expansion of the vacuum pump family
Edwards expands its iXA family of magnetically-levitated turbomolecular pumps with additions STP-iXA2206 and STP-iXA3306 pumps.
An expert system developed
GP Solar will be showcasing its GP TEX-Q .Scan at the Intersolar Europe. The GP TEX-Q .Scan is an optical inspection system for controlling texture quality of mono- and multi crystalline silicon wafers.
Reliable microcracks detection
A new ANTARES system for reliable microcrack detection is offered by Intego. The ANTARES µCrack Detector works contact free and generates images of wafers and cells for automatic defect detection.
